President Lincoln believed that Reconstruction should
A) be controlled exclusively by Congress.
B) harshly punish the white South for its treason.
C) abolish slavery and divide the plantation lands among the former slaves.
D) avoid vindictiveness toward the South.
Ans: D) avoid vindictiveness toward the South.
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